Contract Farming Initiative
A network for researchers and activists interested in the dynamics and political economy of contract farming, rural livelihoods and agrarian change
News
Conceptualizing contract farming in the global land grab debate
A chapter by Contract Farming Initiative members Mark Vicol and Helena Perez Nino appears in the recently published Routledge Handbook of Land and Resource Grabbing. In the chapter, Vicol and Perez Nino aim to clarify conceptualizations of contract farming in the global land grab debate, given contract farming’s ambivalent position in the land grabbing literature…
Contract farming is everywhere, but how does it affect agrarian relations in the Global South?
We are excited to launch the Contract Farming Initiative to push forward and provide a platform for critical scholarship on contract farming. This initiative was born out of a collaboration that bought CF scholars together in a recent special issue of the Journal of Agrarian Change. We warmly invite other scholars, activists and writers to…
Events
EADI conference session, 10-13 July, Lisbon
The Contract Farming Initiative is convening a session at this years EADI conference in Lisbon, 10-13 July (call for abstracts now closed). The session is titled “The political economy of contract farming in low- and middle-income countries: New dynamics and approaches” (HP02) and we have a fantastic line-up of speakers presenting their work on CF…